Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > Le Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 04:13:42PM +0200, Ole Streicher a écrit : >> the "wcslib" exists under this name already for some years, and is >> always referenced under this name. Changing the name to libwcs would >> confuse people with the older libwcs library (which is incompatible).
> Dear Ole, > > although it looks ugly, perhaps you can consider calling your binary > packages libwcslib4, libwcslib-dev, libwcslib-doc and wcslib-util. The first problem is that the library package should be called after its SONAME, and I dont want to change the SONAME because I would break the linking of existing programs. This is the reason why the library package is going to be called "libwcs4". For the -dev and -doc packages, I see no reason to add a second "lib" to their name: why "libwcslib" is better than "wcslib"? These names differ from the library SONAME anyway. > As you noted, users are unlikely to have to install libwcslib by hand. > Developers will find libwcslib-dev easily with apt-cache, and the > description of your package will present its contents clearly. Yes, that's why it may be not so ugly to have a different name for the library. Best regards Ole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874o02nst4....@news.ole.ath.cx
